Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850 [Hardcover]

What was the medical marketplace? This book provides the first critical examination of medicine and the market in pre-modern England, colonial North America and British India. Chapters explore the most important themes in the social history of medicine and offer a fresh understanding of healthcare in this time of social and economic transformation.The Medical Marketplace; M.S.R.Jenner & P.Wallis Medical Economies in Fifteenth-Century England ; R.Ralley Competition and Cooperation in the Early Modern Medical Economy ; P.Wallis The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England c.1570-1720; I.Mortimer Magic, Alchemy and the Medical Economy in Early Modern England: The Case of Robert Fludd's Magnetical Medicine; L.Kassell The Marketplace of Print ; M.Fissell Recipe Collections and the Currency of Medical Knowledge in the Early Modern 'Medical Marketplace'; E.Leong & S.Pennell Midwifery in the 'Medical Marketplace'; A.Wilson Illness in the 'Social Credit' and 'Money' Economies of Eighteenth-Century New England; B.Mutschler Medical Marketplaces beyond the West: Bazaar Medicine, Trade and the English Establishment in Eighteenth Century India ; P.Chakrabarti Monopoly, Markets and Public Health: Pollution and Commerce in the History of London Water 1780-1830; M.S.R.Jenner Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The 'War' Against Morison's Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c.1830-c.1850; M.Brown

'For over two decades now, the idea of a medical marketplace has been a vital shaping influence on historians seeking to understand the nature of health provision in pre-modern societies. Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850 provides a splendid critical re-evaluation of the concept. Suggestive, intelligently written and based on primary research across a wide field, this is a volume which no historian of medicine and no specialist of early modern England can afford to be without.' - Professor Colin Jones, Queen Mary, Ul3=